"I couldn't be more thrilled to join Health Catalyst at this pivotal point in healthcare," Haughom said. "Health systems are realizing after a heavy and sustained investment in their electronic medical record systems that the ROI just isn't there until they implement a data warehouse. Only then can they organize their vast amounts of clinical and non-clinical data to transform healthcare, one system, one hospital, one clinic and one patient at a time. Using data to improve care has been my passion now for at least 22 years and after exhaustive due diligence, I am joining Health Catalyst because they have the best data warehouse platform and analytic solutions to improve care."

Trained in the same principles and methodologies that Health Catalyst espouses, Haughom has decades of experience leading improvement efforts. While a senior executive at PeaceHealth for 18 of the last 20 years in various clinical and IT executive roles including SVP of Quality and CIO, Haughom led integrated clinical, IT and financial teams to realize a 20 percent reduction in harm across the entire system over three years. After implementing a monitoring and data notification system, cardiologists avoided impending heart attacks, resulting in 75 lives saved over the course of approximately nine months. In a separate care process, nursing staff was notified when key patient health measures were on the decline, resulting in avoiding 10 respiratory arrests in a matter of weeks.

"Dr. Haughom shares our vision and values and a common heritage with our leadership," said Dan Burton, Health Catalyst CEO. "He is a critical part of our strategy to satisfy the growing need for systematic clinical improvement enabled by access to actionable data. John's deep clinical improvement experience and success in utilizing data provided through an agile and flexible data warehouse platform will greatly benefit all our health system clients."

Over Haughom's 33-year career he has served on a number of boards and in advisory capacities. Notable awards include being named one of the nation's Top 10 healthcare technology innovators in 2002. In addition to working for 18 years at PeaceHealth in various executive positions, Haughom practiced gastroenterology for 15 years. Dr. Haughom participated in the Stanford Directors' Consortium at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He also took part in the Medical Informatics Masters Program at the University of Utah, earned his medical degree from the University of California, and received a dual undergraduate degree in Economics and Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder.